Oggcast

Free as in Freedom episode 0x03

November 23, 2010

Karen and Bradley discuss the debates regarding Apple's online store
restrictions that make it impossible to distribute GPL'd software via
Apple's store. Then, they discuss question the usefulness of the term
“Open Core”

Running time: 00:45:04.

Show Notes

Note: Bradley's audio was too low compared to Karen's on this
episode. We're still sorting out our recording issues, and apologize
for this. This is completely Bradley's fault: don't blame Producer
Dan. :)

Bradley mentioned that the game Go has been around thousands of
years, although according the Go Wikipedia entry,
it's been around for approximately 2,500 years. (08:21)

Bradley pointed out that the primary goal of GPL enforcement is to get
compliance, not to get companies to cease distribution, but sometimes
the companies prefer to cease distribution rather than complying with
the license. (09:57)

Bradley mentioned that Apple lawyers have a pathological hatred of
GPL, which he believes comes directly down from Steve Jobs, who began his
dislike of GPL when he tried, while at NeXT, to distribute a proprietary
front-end for GCC for Objective-C. (RMS discussed the story briefly in
his essay Copyleft:
Pragmatic Idealism.) (23:45)